The good news is that might mean we'll be getting Goldsmith's most brilliant work in an expanded form on CD. Maybe the music will be restored to it's original form within the movie as well.

I think that this might also be bad news. I think the original Alien film is a masterpiece and not to be tampered this much with. I'm all for reinserting Goldsmith's score, but I've see the cut scenes and most of them were cut for a reason. The Dallas Cocoon scene might work well if placed in the proper place, as will the alien transmission scene. Much of the rest is redundant and only serves to slow the movie.

This makes me wonder if perhaps the scene where the alien gets trapped in the airlock might somehow be finished. It was interesting to read about, but it was my understanding that it was never completed.

Dan

I can't wait to see Fincher's original cut of Alien³. I'm one of the many people who consider the first movie the best of the series, but also one of the few who think that ³ is just as great.

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Originally posted by Wickenstein:
Apparently, Alien is going to be rereleased with cut footage reinserted into the movie. Also, the soundtrack will be remastered!
http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=70

The good news is that might mean we'll be getting Goldsmith's most brilliant work in an expanded form on CD. Maybe the music will be restored to it's original form within the movie as well.

I think that this might also be bad news. I think the original Alien film is a masterpiece and not to be tampered this much with. I'm all for reinserting Goldsmith's score, but I've see the cut scenes and most of them were cut for a reason. The Dallas Cocoon scene might work well if placed in the proper place, as will the alien transmission scene. Much of the rest is redundant and only serves to slow the movie.

This makes me wonder if perhaps the scene where the alien gets trapped in the airlock might somehow be finished. It was interesting to read about, but it was my understanding that it was never completed.

Anyways, we have the original on DVD, so I guess this isn't so bad. Any excuse to give us a complete score is good.

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Hate to tell ya... but when they talk about a soundtrack in this fashion.. they mean everything: music, effects, dialogue, etc... that will all be remastered in one pass.

As for the nine disc release, it's never been confirmed that Alien would have an extended cut so I wouldn't treat this as old news. If anyone read the article, it's about the movie being put back into theaters in October. If the 9-disc set has a Fall release date, then wouldn't it be a little strange that they release the same cut of a movie on DVD around the same time?

Dark Horizons is reporting that ALIEN is being readied for a limited theatical reissue in the fall, followed by a reissue next spring of Cameron's extended cut of ALIENS. Again, this suggests an opportunity to reissue their soundtracks.

I absolutely despised #'s 3 and 4, but I know others here appreciate them more than I can.

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Originally posted by Ed:
Again, this suggests an opportunity to reissue their soundtracks.

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I doubt there'll be yet another release of Aliens soon after the lenghty Varese Deluxe CD. But I also believe that it can't take too much longer until they release an expanded CD with the first score - but then, I've been thinking and saying that about the Indy scores for months...

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Originally posted by jonathan_little:
Alien would be the perfect score to resurrect the "Non-Club Non-Limited Wide Release Deluxe Edition" from Varese.

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Yeah, but doesn't Silva still own the rights to ALIEN? I know it was discussed here: http://www.moviemusic.com/mb/Forum1/HTML/007687.html

... but has anything changed since then?

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Originally posted by SEBULBA:
I do know however, that Horner composed around 100 min. of music for the movie. And only around 60 min. appeared in the film.

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You and Marian are right, there's no need to do another ALIENS soundtrack. I was thinking more of a reissue with new cover art to match the key art for the film reissues.

I heard the full score as part of my work about eight years ago, and I believe the Varese CD is complete. The only exceptions are several short "stinger" cues and a percussion-only cue for the "Dropship" sequence. I will take another look at the cd later to check that out. I don't know where the 100 min. figure comes from, but I don't think the score was ever that long. Cameron was unhappy with it, though, so there may have been a few alternate orchestrations attempted at the sessions, but on the whole the film had a tight budget (including music) so I doubt Horner had the time or the means to do any additional music.

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Originally posted by dgoldwas:
Remember that 9-disc Alien Legacy box set coming out this fall? Well.. supposedly each of the films will have two cuts on it (seamless branching) which means we'll have the new cut of ALIEN on DVD along with the original cut, on one disc.

Dan

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So there would be 5 dics of supplementary material? Thats a lot of supplements!

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Originally posted by mtodd:
So there would be 5 dics of supplementary material? Thats a lot of supplements!

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Yup. The stuff I'm hearing about for this set is gonna be unbelievable.

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Originally posted by Pete M:
And my understanding is that Alien3 won't be a true "Director's Cut", but will simply include all of the original footage into the film, as basically a work cut - which would therefore have things which Fincher could well have wanted cut out of the finished film.

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Actually, last I had heard (oh, wednesday), Fincher is now involved with the ALIEN 3 discs.

As for the other stuff you mentioned, I think it's most likely that all new material will be included on the disc, to include the UK stuff would involve legal rights negotiations etc.... But if they had to include something, it would be nice to put that AMC Alien Legacy documentary on there!!

Dan

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Originally posted by SEBULBA:
The 100 min. figure came from Horner himself in an interview in a Hollywood Reporter I beleive. I'll have to see if I have that issue. I try to hang on to composer issues. But much of that music was unused. Example: The last 5 cues on the Varese release are unused cues. Or maybe he composed that much, but didn't record that much. I'll have to see if I can find the interview. But I agree, the Varese Deluxe release represents the movies score quite well.

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I checked out the note I made on the ALIENS score tape when I heard it and I can tell you that EVERYTHING that I heard is on the CD; the alternates were not on that tape except the "Combat Drop" percussion cue, so the CD has more than I thought.

So I would guess that if there were 100 mins. of music written or recorded, they are probably more alternates.